McDonald's and Microsoft top Hewitt Associates' Best Employers for Central and Eastern Europe Study
Hewitt Associates announced the results of its annual Best Employers Study for Central and Eastern Europe, sponsored by The Wall Street Journal Europe. The study, which surveyed nearly 120,000 employees, 3,000 senior leaders and 600 companies in 12 countries, shows that Best Employers with highly engaged teams are more successful both in achieving and exceeding business goals, as well as attracting, retaining and motivating their key resource - talent.
For more details on the results and for the list of Best Employers please click here.
Hewitt is launching 'Best Employers' study in Hungary for the 8 th time in 2008.This is the second year in co-operation with the leading Hungarian daily business news publication Világgazdaság. This year's survey will focus on employee motivations. Hewitt is examining what is the Hungarian employees' orientation toward work, what are their motives, the values they would not give up? What are the main factors that influence their decisions regarding their workplace? This year's Best Employers Study is looking for the answers of these challenging questions
Creating Competitive Advantage
To help organizations move in the right direction and create real competitive advantage through their people, Hewitt conducts Best Employers studies around the world.
Our research shows that Best Employers excel at making employees feel connected to the business. They communicate with employees about the organization's goals. They align people with the business through performance management and aggressive career development. And they link pay with performance of the individual and the company.
Employees at Best Employers express a high degree of trust and confidence in company leadership. And Best Employers are better positioned to take advantage of business opportunities and weather business cycles effectively.
Hewitt's Best Employer studies:
- Determine what really makes Best Employers best.
- Determine how Best Employers capitalize on this strength to produce greater performance and business results.
- Identify emerging workplace trends.
Being a Best Employer ... means something ... to everyone who impacts your success
To your leaders,
it means they share a common vision and have chartered a clear course for the future.
To your HR team,
it means they have implemented the right people practices to inspire high performance.
To your employees,
it means they see a future, believe in and are excited by it, and understand what it means for them and their work.
To your shareholders,
high employee Engagement will translate into better business results and that you are well–positioned for growth and transformation.
To your customers,
it means you will deliver on your customer promise as you have on your employee promise.
To potential employees,
it means your organization is a great place to work.
Why participate?
Objective mirror. We provide an accurate, detailed and comprehensive picture about the current situation. We also identify the most urgent actions, interventions. We provide prompt solutions for satisfaction and HR practice development and for strategic human resource decisions.
Sound benchmark data. If you take part in the survey, you get access to industrial, national and international benchmarks to support your strategic human resource decisions. The participants get some points from other companies’ practices and get to know the solutions of the Best ones.
Recognition and prestige. It’s not only about glory to get among the Best Employers, but it is also a public opinion forming tool. The fast reputation improvement brought practical business and human resource advantage to Best Employers companies.
Authentic ranking. Participants find information about where they are in the Hungarian and regional ranking. Ranking is based on objective points of view. Place is influenced by opinion of employees, by business strategy and by an Alignment-figure that measures the accommodation of HR practices and employees’ opinion.